alt Hacker NewsThis is fun and neat, and looks fantastic, but the generated maps are basically nonsensical, aren't they? Landmasses and waterways and roads and buildings and forests and so on that don't make any logical sense for their placement.
I say this having had a couple of fun "hex-based strategy game hobby projects" over the years (sidenote -- trying to cover a sphere in hexes is actually a non-trivial matter). Invariably I ended up with "to make a map from scratch, first you create the universe" where I'd go through all of the ages, compute waterflows and precipitation, and on and on. Maybe I made the requirements too unreasonable and that's precisely why I never yielded a working game from it.
> This is fun and neat, and looks fantastic, but the generated maps are basically nonsensical, aren't they?
WFC lets you address that though with extra constraints. e.g. my bot today generated a church inside a river loop[0] - completely useless! But I could add a rule that says "if you place the church-above-river tile, the tile above that cannot be anything horizontally blocking" (obviously after tagging any relevant tiles as "horizontally blocking" in the tileset) and that would prevent "church in a river loop" situations.
(I've already been working on some extra rules because, e.g., I don't like the one-edge-castle-wall tiles being placed next to each other - you get tiny pasty shaped castles and I hate them.)
[0] https://social.browser.org/fileserver/01E5NFWNPGZWNJ0DS1WE88... - bottom 3 rows, just past halfway across